PARTS OF SPEECH OR PARTS OF A SENTENCE OR CLASSIFICATION OF WORDS
PARTS OF SPEECH OR PARTS OF A SENTENCE OR CLASSIFICATION OF WORDS
Lesson 3
INTRODUCTION
Learning a language means learning it's grammar.
In lesson no. 2 we have already understood the sounds in english language which are formed when two letters or alphabets come together. Now the next step is what happens when more than one or two sounds come together in a sequence ? You are right , 'words' , cluster of letters in particular pattern , are formed which generally have meaning. eg. a-n-d together make a word ,'and', which is made of three sounds basically.
Now, all these words can be classified as following ;-
1. Nouns :- These words are names of any thing, person , place, animal or any abstract feeling or thought .
Eg. boy, pencil, ball, bear, garden, love, hatred.
Generally we use articles before these nouns to specify them as single or many .
Eg. a ball, a boy, a garden etc. This means that the boy, ball and garden are single or one in number.
Note :- When we come across the nouns starting with vowel sound , then instead of 'a' , we must use 'an' before that noun.
Eg. an ear, an eye, an owl, an angle etc.
Again note, we must focus on sound of the first letter of such nouns and not mere letters
eg. a University (sound is 'yu'), an hour (sound is not 'ha', it is 'aa').Hope this is clear about basic nouns .
One more thing 'a', 'an, are used for only countable nouns and not uncountable nouns . Uncountable nouns do not carry articles before them. Eg. water , air, money etc. 'The' is another article which is a definite article used with particular nouns . Eg. The ball , which means that particular ball we are talking about and not any ball.
So, a ball - means any ball
The ball - means that particular ball.
Important : we never use indefinite articles to proper names or proper nouns
Eg. a boy - correct
the boy - corect
a Ram - incorrect
the Ram - incorrect
We always start proper nouns with capital letterr or upper case letter eg. Mr. John, Renuka, Simi etc.
Also we do use articles before abstract nouns ( feelings, thoughts, ideas etc)
Eg. a democracy, an envy, a doubt etc.
We never use indefinite articles before plural nouns ( many eg. boy - boys)
Eg. a boy - correct
a boys - incorrect
Plural nouns are always used without indefinite articles.
However, definite article can be used before plural nouns
Eg. the trees , the boys, the books, the pens etc.
when we talk about particular plural nouns together.
I think this was all about nouns and usage along with rules.
In next lesson we will talk about next part of the speech that is 'Pronouns'.
Till then bye....
You can watch the detailed video on nouns. Link given below :-
https://youtu.be/pc9uaqyceFM
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